Hundreds of passengers on United Airlines flight 1670 are happy to have made it to Hawaii safely, after spending long hours waiting to get on a plane.

Moiliili resident, Sara Iwai was on that flight.

She stopped in San Francisco on her way back from Las Vegas just moments before the Asiana Airlines plane crashed.

“Right after our plane landed we think that other jet crashed because they put us in a holding area. And then we could see from the window the white smoke and then after that it got to be real dark gray,” Iwai said.

Her flight was supposed to leave for Hawaii at 1:28 Saturday afternoon, but didn’t leave San Francisco til 10 p.m.

She waited about nine hours in the airport.

‘We thought we were going to be there overnight because they didn’t know whether the planes were going to fly or not,” Iwai said.